كتاب
Long journey to the border: a life of John Mulgan
| العنوان: | Long journey to the border: a life of John Mulgan |
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| المؤلفون: | O'Sullivan, Vincent. |
| بيانات النشر: | Auckland, N.Z. ; New York : Penguin Books, 2003. |
| سنة النشر: | 2003 |
| وصف مادي: | 368 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Authors, New Zealand -- 20th century -- Biography., New Zealanders -- Greece -- Biography., Biography. |
| Subject Person: | Mulgan, John, 1911-1945. |
| الوصف: | "Author of the classic novel Man Alone, John Mulgan emerges from this ... biography as a man who spoke for the generation that grew up between the wars, overshadowed by one and matured in another. From one perspective he was a glamorous figure - handsome, gifted, good at whatever he took up. From another the darker threads began to dominate - from the sharp political concerns that saw little to celebrate, the commitment to ordinary decencies that he felt even war would not necessarily preserve, to his final years in Greece, the country that confirmed his deepest values yet helped provoke the final decision to take his own life. ..."--Back cover. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | 1. 'It's a fine, free country' -- 2. 'Not a bad little town' -- 3. 'There's only one Oxford' -- 4. 'What a game ... ' -- 5. Life's so damn transitory' -- 6. 'A desert of realism' -- 7. A life 'I'd not like to have missed' -- 8. 'Cairo by nightfall' -- Postscript -- Mulgan's publications -- Manuscript sources. |
| Original Identifier: | ocm58468600 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-14-301871-1 0-14-301871-X |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | "A Penguin original"--P. [4] of cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. [340]-357) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.009322837.6 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780143018711 014301871X |
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